Moses Ezekiel
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 17.9 × 13.9 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.222
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Stieglitz Estate Number
72C
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Key Set Number
241
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 241.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: M. Ezekiel, / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037701
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
An American-born sculptor who studied in Berlin at the Royal Academy of Art, Moses Ezekiel lived with the Stieglitz family both at their home in New York and on vacation in Lake George in 1878.
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
possibly 1899, New York (no. 51, as Portrait of Mr. E., 1896, platinum)
1908, Toronto (no. 91, as Portrait, Mr. Ezekiel)